Cheese-cutting device



No. 6|9,9u5. Patented Febfzl. |899. A. L. NlcHoLs.

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(Application lad Dec. 30, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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ALVIN L. NICHOLS, OF GROVE CITY, OHIO.

'CHEESE-CUTTING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,905, dated February 21, 1899. Application tiled December 30, 1897. Serial No. 664,721. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALVIN L. NICHOLS, a-

citizen of the United States, residing at Grove City, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cheese-Cutting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvement of knives for cutting cheese, and is particularly adapted for retail dealers therein.

The objects of my invention are to provide a cheese-cutting knife of this class of superior construction and arrangement of parts which will facilitate the rapid and accurate cutting of cheese, whether the same be of the ordinary low or high forms, to provide in connection therewith improved means for determining the quantity of cheese to be cut from the body thereof, and to produce other improvements in details of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective showing my improved cheese-knife in operation. Fig. 2 is a detail view in perspective of the end of the knife-blade. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of the sheath-post. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the latter, taken at right angles with that shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a transverse section on line y y of Fig. 4. Fig. G is a transverse section on line .e z of Fig. 4, and Fig. 7 is a detail View in elevation of the central portion of the sheath-post.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention I employ a sheath-post 1, which is practically divided into two parallel sections by the formation therein of a slotted opening 2, which extends through the upper end of the post and thence downward to a point in the lower pointed end thereof. The mouth or entrance to the slotted opening 2, on one side of the post from the upper end of the latter to a point near the center of its length,is somewhat enlarged, as indicated at 3, resulting in the formation at the junction of the wider and narrower entrances to said slot of oppositely-located shoulders 4. The walls of the lower halves of the post-sections below the center of the length of the latter are provided on their inner surfaces with oppositely-located vertical ways or recesses 5, these internal oppositely located ways or recesses terminating at their lower ends in oppositely-located odsets 5a. The upper portions of the sections forming the post are preferably united by connected lugs 6, with which is adapted to be connected a suitable forrn of handle 7.

As indicated at 8, I provide, for the purpose hereinafter set forth, an upper end notch or recess in the post 1.

9 represents a knife-blade, which is provided on` its outer end with a suitable handle 10, this blade having, as indicated more clearly in Fig. 2, one of its sides vertical and its remaining side inclined or beveled toward its cutting edge. The point or other eXtremity of said knife-blade is provided on opposite sides thereof with projecting pins or trunnions 11.

12 represents a suitable base-board, upon which is rotatably supported in the usual or any ordinary manner a cheeseholding table or disk 13.

14 represents a yokeshaped guide-frame, the lower ends of the vertical arms of which are secured to the upper side of the base l2 at opposite points onl the outer side of the disk 13. The upper horizontal arm of the guide bar or yoke 14, which bridges the disk 13 centrally, is adapted to lit within the recess 8 in the upper end of the post 1, the lower pointed end of the latter being adapted to enter a central socket in the disk 13. The post or sheath 1 is, however, prior to the se curing of the yoke 14 to the post 12 forced provide a sliding indicator 18, the point of which preferably extends inwardly, as shown, toward the cheese-body.

In utilizing the above-described device the outer end of the knife-blade is inserted in the mortise or slotted opening 2, the pins 11 en IOO tering between the upper and lower shoulders 4 at the central portion of the post. The knife is then raised to a vertical position before insertion in the cheese-center, as hereinbefore described. By allowing the pins or trunnions l1 of the knife-blade to rest and turn on the shoulders 4 the handle portion of the knife may now be forced outward and downward, resulting in producing the desired eut in the upper half of the cheese. By disengaging the pins or trunnions from said shoulders 4 the knife-blade may be dropped to the lower end portion of the sheath-post and the cutting operation repeated to produce the desired cu tin the lower portion of the cheese. In this cutting operation the straight side of the knife is in contact with the yoke 14, the latter being thus made to serve as a guide for the knife-blade and insure the production of a straight and accurate cut of the cheese.

The scale-marks 011 the scale-bar 17 may be so arranged that by moving the indicator 1S to a mark on said scale-bar which represents a certain quantity of cheese and rotating the cheese until one of its walls produced by the former cut is opposite said indicator a downward operation of the knife-blade will result in cutting from the cheese the quantity marked by the indicator on the scaleiar.

From the construction and operation which l have described herein it will be readily seen that a simple, reliable, and eective device is produced for cutting cheese and that owing to the upper and lower knife fulcrumpoints being provided in the sheath said knife may be utilized with equal success in cutting the high or low form of cheese, such as are ordinarily sold by dealers. Itis also obvious that the bearing of the straight side of the knife-blade against the guide-yoke must result in an accurate cut being produced and that the means provided for gaging the amount of cheese so cut will be of great assistance in cutting from the body of acheese exact quantities.

' Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secu re by Letters Patent, is-

In a cheese-cuttin g device the combination with a sheath-post having a vertical slot or recess therein, the lower halves of the sections formed by said slot being provided with internal Ways and internal shoulders 4 formed as described at the junction of the upper and lower halves of the post, of a knifeblade adapted to be inserted within said slotted opening and pins projecting from the end of said knife-blade adapted to projcctin said internal ways, substantially as and for the purpose speciiied.

ALVIN L. NICHOLS.

In presence of- HENRY GUMBLY, A. L. PHnLrs. 

